Testimony began Thursday in the trial of Sohiel Omar Kabir, 36, of Pomona and Ralph Deleon, 25, of Ontario, two of the four men arrested Nov. 16, 2012, in an Inland conspiracy-terror case.

FBI agents took the stand and described how a car with Deleon, Arifeen David Gojali, 23, of Riverside and Miguel Santana, 23, of Upland was stopped by agents in the driveway of a Chino apartment complex.

Kabir and Deleon have both pleaded not guilty to five conspiracy counts. A defense document filed in March says Gojali and Santana have entered guilty pleas, but offered no specifics.

While authorities found some provocative writings, defense attorneys pushed hard to show that searches of the carâ€™s luggage and the homes of Deleon, Santana and Kabir did not recover any hardware â€“ guns, explosives or other weapons; manuals for weapons or bombmaking; maps or photos of U.S. military bases; or terrain maps of Middle Eastern countries or Afghanistan.

Government attorneys asserted that Thursdayâ€™s law-enforcement witnesses had only collected material, including several computers, cellphones and data storage devices. They were not testifying about what analysts may have found in those systems.

The FBI said Kabir, Deleon and Santana had plotted since 2010 to join the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan and â€śengage in violent jihad,â€ť including killing American military personnel and attacking U.S. bases overseas. Gojali was recruited into the group in September 2012, the government said.

The group never got to act on their alleged plans. Authorities said the arrest in Chino stopped their car trip that was bound for Mexico and a flight that would take them to Turkey, the first leg in reaching Kabir, who was already in Afghanistan.

Throughout the day of testimony, FBI agents and a federally deputized San Bernardino County district attorney investigator described the material taken from the warrant searches of Deleonâ€™s home in Ontario, Santanaâ€™s residence in Upland, and the Kabir family home in Pomona.

Kabirâ€™s defense attorneys, Angela Viramontes and Matthew B. Larsen, pointedly went through a lengthy list of items with witnesses, asking each if the search warrant teams found weapons, relevant maps or weapons manuals. None did.

They also elicited testimony that no cold weather gear or clothing was in the car, despite the trioâ€™s alleged ultimate destination of Afghanistan in November.

In the Upland home of Santana, FBI Special Agent Mark Espiritu found a spiral notebook with Santanaâ€™s name in it. The book included Web addresses for radical Islamic and jihad Internet sites, Espiritu said.

He also quoted from some writing found in the book: â€śWe will bomb. We will kill. We wonâ€™t rest. We will rule by the rule of Sharia and its law.â€ť The writing also praised â€śour sheik Osama.â€ť

The government has declined to describe Gojali and Santanaâ€™s status or the crimes to which they pleaded guilty, but motions made in court this week revealed both were scheduled to testify as cooperating government witnesses.

Defense attorneys claim the four young men were directionless, smoked marijuana, were given to grandiose statements, and fell under the influence of the FBI informant who joined them in February 2012.

The government says the defendants were serious in their beliefs and actions and were well along in their plans to go to Afghanistan and join in violent jihad before the informant came on the scene.

Kabir and Deleon are charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists; conspiracy to provide material to a foreign terrorist organization; conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping or maiming overseas; conspiracy to receive military-type training from al-Qaida; and conspiracy to murder â€śofficers and employeesâ€ť of the United States.

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